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On 26/06/2018 20:55, Scott wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:31:32 +0100, Gareth's Downstairs Computer
> <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Yankland and its politics is increasingly irrelevant on
>> a day-to-day basis to the rest of the world (Trump and
>> Clinton the only candidates????? ), so is anyone here
>> interested in computers?
> 
> Cleaning out my shed, I just unearthed some boxes of my old Tandy
> Color Computer stuff. A few intact examples (1 through 3, and I think
> an MC10) plus a bunch of peripherals, cables, tapes, disks, reference
> manuals. Been at least 20 years since I put power to any of it.
> 
> Part of me wants to say how awesome it all was. And it did get me
> started. I first learned to program the MC-10's slightly funky BASIC,
> so deeply baked-in that the keywords had keyboard shortcuts in
> hardware. Seems weird now.
> 
> Then there was Color and Extended BASIC, then 6809 assembler. Hacking
> hardware to add RAM where Tandy never meant for RAM to go,
> overclocking to nearly 2MHz (!), burning custom DOS EPROMs, letting
> the smoke out more times than I care to admit. But the fact is that
> all of this wasn't very shiny after all...sure, it got me started, and
> at the time it was all I could afford, but I didn't know what else I
> was missing. Nostalgia is funny.

I was the same with an Acorn Atom, it also could be overclocked to 2MHz 
by the addition of a physical switch, some wires and careful soldering 
and a capacitor or two.
I still have it and a second one I bought on impulse on ebay but never used.
...and yes Nostalgia is funny. I loved my Atom and loved playing games 
and programming it (with a built-in assembler you could do a lot with a 
few kB) But I fired it up recently and it is not a good experience.

Andy